[one4turbo]

Hard drives are a constant problem around here, darn kids won't back up their data and cry when the lose it. And stupid Windows wants to store all unreplaceable data on drive C. Couldn't have picked a worse place to store it.

Did you ever read that warning label that comes with a hard drive? Don't even plug it in until it reaches room temperature.

Looking at one of my kid's HD's right now with over 400GB of architectural drawings on it that represents thousands of hours of work on his part. Crashed, I can't repair it, best price I could find is 3,000 bucks in an attempt to have it professionally recovered. If they can recover that data. Kid doesn't have the 3,000 bucks, I am not paying it.

Get sick of saying to make backup's. My key computer is not even online, everything that goes into it has a virus check first, plus it has two extra harddrives for backup. The real important stuff, burn a CD, not one but two.

Struck a nerve here or

 

[one4turbo]

Latest gimmick in hard drives are solid state ones, employing all flashram chips on the inside, like this one for 320 bucks.

For the same price could buy 30 16GB flashdrives with the same memory capacity. With the advantage, you don't have all of your eggs in one basket.

30 flash drives... are you preparing for the apocalypse?

 

[one4turbo]

Problems in connecting a smart phone and using the aux phone jack input. These things are limited in volume so they won't get sued blowing your ears off. Then you have to play with your phone while driving to select your tunes. Solution, copy your tunes to a flashdrive.

Also problems with a smart phone trying to read your MP3's with a USB cord, solution, copy your tunes to a flashdrive.

Now problems trying to read off a hard drive, solution, copy your tunes to a flashdrive.

I have no problems using my iPhone via USB

 

[one4turbo]

NickD seems like a flashdrive salesman

 

[one4turbo]

Ha, would if you tried to hook in an Android phone into a Iphone docking station. Only problem we had with iphones was paying Apple 90 some cents to license a track, when we had tons of CD's around here we could convert from for free. Did Apple change this since about five years ago?

Can you select your songs from your radio? US Cellular, the company we are stuck with as the only one that lets our cell phones work in our home is finally selling iphones. Maybe we should look into them.

Yup. You can go through playlists, artists, albums, songs and all that through the radio.